Thank you for all your opinions on my second floor! I admit that I didn’t like them, because I wanted to give Kajsa and Tessa access to potential playgrounds. So I did something very unusual; I tried to solve a problem by asking others for favors. I talked with my landlord, and I’m so stunned: I will install a cat flap into the door between the staircase and the first cold room! I’m so happy that I asked. The doors are from 1890, and I was pretty sure he wouldn’t like the idea of cat flaps, but he said that this particular door isn’t a problem.

I decided to keep the study for myself, meaning cat-free. The second cold room will be a storage for all the stuff we don’t need and should probably throw away. So my spoiled cats will have their very own room of 35 m2 / 380 ft2!

A lot of work needs to be done:

Tidy up the second cold room, it’s really trashed

Remove everything from the first cold room to the second cold room

Make my neighbor help me with the furniture

Make my neighbor “help me” (I’ll be an excellent spectator and admirer) to install the cat flap.

We’re doing fine otherwise. I’m still very tired, and not up to poopy posts and other blogging activity. Sorry, Kajsa, you really tried to look as angry as you could, but I’m too tired today.

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Me neither. 😀 But I know that my neighbor is a true hero when it comes to building things. I hope he’ll be doing it for me, but I’m sure I can convince him with some nice treats. No, he isn’t a cat, but also humans are happy about treats 😀

And I think you might have your words flipped. “my second floor solution. Well, turned out, it isn’t a solution, only a big problem”

It isn’t a big solution, this is the solution to the big problem. As in “my second floor problem. Well turned out, it isn’t a problem, only a simple solution.”

Does that make sense? please know I’m just pointing it out to help. (I know it’s hard to judge what people mean by their text.) Learning a second language is hard! I’ve always wanted to go to Finland. Is that strange? Lol

Hei! Thank you for your help and comments! 🙂 I’m so tired these days, and I always mix up languages when I’m tired. It gets really awful when I’m very tired AND ill, because nobody understands what I’m saying, even in my mother tongue!

I was thinking in Swedish whilst writing English. You typically use the word “solution” when talking about ground plans and interior. “Solution” means how rooms are divided and used. However, solution means also solution to a problem. So I thought I was funny because I played with the word “solution”, but it doesn’t work out in English. Thank you for making me aware of this, I’ll edit my post!

I’ll take a lot of before and after pictures. They’ll also be a great motivation for doing all the work!

Their OWN room ?! Wowsers. We are jealous. Okay, we have a house but we have to share it with Äiti – who else would clean ? So, what are you going to put in the room for their delight ? Catification is such fun.
Loads of trees and shelves (we recommend the really cheap ones you can get from Ikea which are fully adjustable. Äiti has cut holes in the shelves so we can move up and down them easily – we have some on our catio at the moment but would love more – trouble is indoors all the shelves have books on them. Mainly books about cats…..

Oh no, Äiti has a lot of books about cats? Mamma has some, but we make sure she doesn’t have time to read them. She was saying the other day that she needed a book on dominant cat behavior, and I think she should really get it! It’s great that she wants to support me bossing Tessa around. I’m doing my very best that Tessa doesn’t get all the attention she wants, but I could do with some help. /Kajsa

P.S.: It’ll be our room, but we’ll hire Mamma to clean it. Those shelves are a great idea, I’ll make her buying some!

For some reason I have just received all your week’s posts in one lot into my reader!! So now I have caught up! How cool that the kitties will get their own room and a cat flap!! The Staff here provided me with a cat flap to the summerhouse which I’ve never used!! However, my buddy, Tigger, uses it all the time! I prefer The Staff to open and close doors for me MOL

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To be the mouse or the cat

One human, two cats and “Not-Me” living in the suburbs of Helsinki. Which one of us can only play when the other one’s away? I think the human is the cat and my cats are the mice. I’ll explain why as soon as I get this butt off my face.

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